Lisa Arnold is the Clinical Director of the Collegiate Recovery Program at Fairfield University, where she has been employed for the last nineteen years. Lisa serves as chair of the CRP Advisory Board, which is responsible for opening the first Collegiate Recovery House in Connecticut, and the first Jesuit Collegiate Recovery Program in the country with housing. Lisa is a member of the AOD Advisory Board and Opioid Awareness Task Force, which brings several events onto campus throughout the year to promote awareness, reduce the stigma of addiction, and is responsible for providing Narcan training to faculty and staff. Lisa has 25 years of experience working with addiction and recovery in various settings, including rehabilitation and higher education.
For the past seven years, Lisa has coached baseball and softball in her hometown of Watertown, Conn. where she launched the town's first softball little league program in 2017. She currently sits on the Executive Board of Watertown-Oakville Little League as the VP of Softball. She lives with her husband of twenty years and three children, ages 18, 17, and 11.
